remote mysql question

  • Hello, I’m slowly scaling a WordPress site, and having an issue with the error Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. My question isn’t why I’m getting the error, or how to install MySQL, but is there a way to ignore the error or get around it? Basically I have two servers, one with just the things required to run WordPress minus MySQL, and another server with just MySQL. I have it setup where in theory it should work, but getting the error above. I’d like to avoid installing MySQL on the first server. Thanks ahead of time for any pointers.

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  • I’m not an expert in this particular area, but what I am getting from the issue you report is not that you need to install mySQL on the local server, but that you need to install on the local server a PHP module that makes it possible to access mySQL on a remote server.

    After you get it set up, you’d put as hostname in wp-config.php on the local server, the IP of the server running mySQL

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